She brought the dialogue to a close.

Colonel Adister sidled an eye at a three-quarter view of her face.

'I fancy you're feeling the heat of the room,' he said.
Jane acknowledged a sensibility to some degree of warmth.
The colonel was her devoted squire on the instant for any practical service.

His appeal to his aunt concerning one of the windows was answered by her appeal to Jane's countenance for a disposition to rise and leave the gentlemen.

Captain Con, holding the door for the passage of his wife and her train of ladies, received the injunction: 'Ten,' from her, and remarked: 'Minutes,' as he shut it.